Nehemiah 13:23

²¹ but I warned them, “Why are you camping in front of the wall? If you do it again, I will lay hands on you.” From that time on, they did not return on the Sabbath.

²² Then I instructed the Levites to purify themselves and guard the gates in order to keep the Sabbath day holy. Remember me for this as well, O my God, and show me mercy according to Your abundant loving devotion.

In those days I also saw Jews who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.

²⁴ Half of their children spoke the language of Ashdod or of the other peoples, but could not speak the language of Judah.

²⁵ I rebuked them and called down curses on them. I beat some of these men and pulled out their hair. Then I made them take an oath before God and said, “You must not give your daughters in marriage to their sons or take their daughters as wives for your sons or for yourselves!

Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB: In those days I also saw Jews who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.
KJV: In those days also saw I Jews that had married wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab:
WEB: In those days I also saw the Jews who had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab;
ASV: In those days also saw I the Jews that had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, [and] of Moab:
DARBY: In those days also I saw Jews that had married wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, [and] of Moab.
BLB: Also in those days I saw the Judeans [who] had settled [with] women—Ashdodite, Ammonite, [and] Moabite.

ÅB: På den tid så jeg også de jøder som hadde tatt asdodittiske, ammonittiske og moabittiske kvinner til hustruer;
OTB: Videre, i de dager så jeg menn fra Juda som hadde giftet seg med kvinner fra Asjdod, Ammon og Moab.
B1930: På den tid så jeg også de jøder som hadde tatt asdodittiske, ammonittiske og moabittiske kvinner til hustruer;

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Ezra 9:1–2
After these things had been accomplished, the leaders approached me and said, “The people of Israel, including the priests and Levites, have not kept themselves separate from the surrounding peoples whose abominations are like those of the Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Jebusites, Ammonites, Moabites, Egyptians, and Amorites.
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Nehemiah 10:30
We will not give our daughters in marriage to the people of the land, and we will not take their daughters for our sons.
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Ezra 10:10
Then Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, “You have been unfaithful by marrying foreign women, adding to the guilt of Israel.
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Nehemiah 13:1
At that time the Book of Moses was read aloud in the hearing of the people, and in it they found the passage stating that no Ammonite or Moabite should ever enter the assembly of God,
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2 Corinthians 6:14
Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership can righteousness have with wickedness? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?
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Ezra 10:44
All these men had married foreign women, and some of them had children by these wives.
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Nehemiah 4:7
When Sanballat and Tobiah, together with the Arabs, Ammonites, and Ashdodites, heard that the repair to the walls of Jerusalem was progressing and that the gaps were being closed, they were furious,
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Ezra 9:11–12
that You gave through Your servants the prophets, saying: ‘The land that you are entering to possess is a land polluted by the impurity of its peoples and the abominations with which they have filled it from end to end.
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